MEET OUR STAFF
Passionate Educators
We’re proud to present our amazing team. Their care, enthusiasm and dedication to helping students exceed pushes Summer School in bioinformatics 2023 to the next level. We invite you to take a moment and read some of their stories below.
Associate professor dr. MIKAEL LENZ STRUBE
Senior teacher
Energetic and driven, highly experienced in bioinformatics and statistics. Always happy to help and a great guitar player.
Assistant professor Polonca Stefanic
Organizer of the school
I am Polonca Stefanic, an assistant professor at the Biotechnical faculty, University of Ljubljana. In the summer of 2021 I organized the first two summer schools in bioinformatics, which took place at the Biotechnical Faculty of the University of Ljubljana, in July 2021 and 2022.
I have extensive experience in B. subtilis quorum sensing, but now my biggest passion resides in kin discrimination and its consequences on the survival, horizontal transfer and evolution of this species. I am also involved in a project investigating Bacillus strains as potential plant growth promoters (PGP), where we isolate and test new strains for PGP and biocontrol activity against different bacterial pathogens. Besides, I take part in an inter-species interaction project, where we test the ability of Bacillus species to act against Campylobacter in different setting. Always open to new collaborations and enjoy visiting research labs as a foreign scholar. Recently (2yrs ago) I started introducing bioinformatics to my work and through collaborations I have met many excellent teachers and experts in the field, allowing me to invite them to the school as lecturers.